Engineering Manager and Evangelist

ColdFusion and Graphics on Linux

Anyone out there have problems using image manipulation libraries — or even just CFCHART, for that matter — on a Linux server? If you aren’t running an X server on your Linux box (which you most likely are not) and/or do not have the XFree86 libraries installed, you are not going to be able to use tags like CFCHART, or the upcoming Jimg package on DRK 4 which lets you use ColdFusion tags or components to manipulate images in a variety of ways. The reason is that Java uses native graphic libraries for many graphic operations, so in come cases, either X needs to be running, or a virtual X server (like the X Virtual Frame Buffer, or Xvfb).